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Saturday, 6 July 2013

DANISH BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO PUDEMO

In the last 30 years, the People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO)
has been “the main force in fighting for democracy,” Danish solidarity
organisation Africa Contact wrote in a press release in connection with
PUDEMO’s 30th Anniversary, writes Kenworthy News Media.

PUDEMO has been the main proponent of “a broadly socialist and pro-poor
political programme, and for ensuring the inclusion of the population at large
in the political process,” Danish democratic socialist party and PUDEMO project
partner the Red Green Alliance wrote in another press release.

Africa Contact and the Red Green Alliance are two of the main supporters of the democratic movement in Swaziland.
Africa Contact has worked with several of the important organisations in the
democratic movement for many years now and the Red Green Alliance is presently
engaged in a partnership project with PUDEMO.

The Red Green Alliance commends PUDEMO the organisations’ involvement in
“mass campaigning and civic education of the masses” in a country where there
is virtually no political space due to the ban on political parties and the
“brutal suppression” of the democratic movement in general, and PUDEMO in
particular.

And Africa Contact goes on to commend PUDEMO’s resolution and success in
pressurizing the regime, regardless of the difficulties that the organisation
faces. “PUDEMO’s success can be seen in the increasingly desperate measures of
the regime, not least in the increasing level of repression that PUDEMO and
other organisations fighting for multi-party democracy have to endure,” says
Africa Contact.